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Shopping for the holidays? Here’s a way to save money

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The holidays will be upon us soon and I’m sure that many of you have already started shopping. I’m definitely not one of those people who are ready for the holidays three months in advance, but I know some of you might be finished shopping already.

If you are beginning to shop for the holidays you might want to visit webbyplanet.com. It’s an e-commerce search site where you can find great deals, discounts, coupons and free shipping at over 5000 retail and online stores.

When you visit Webbyplanet.com you can browse through the shopping categories or do a search for the product for which you are hoping to find a deal or coupon. Once you find the store or product you were looking for you can browse through the listings to find coupons that you can print and use for in store purchases, or you can find coupon codes to use while online.

Each listing links to the store the coupon or deal is related to and that makes it easy to take advantage of the bargain you found and shop for it right away.

Looking through the site I found quite a few deals and coupons. Many of the listings were for $10 to $20 off an item or service, and other listings gave discounts in percentages of 15% to 35% and higher. All of the listings are in chronological order which means the ones at the top are the newest listings.

Visit WebbyPlanet today and start saving money at online stores like Eddie Bauer, Buy.com, Overstock.com, Sephora and more!





I can’t believe that Halloween is just around the corner

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Can you believe it’s already almost mid-September? The kids are back to school, summers almost over and it’s getting cooler. Well, it’s getting a bit cooler here! The leaves on the trees will soon turn red, orange and yellow, lovely in their glorious flaming colors, then they will fall to the ground right around Halloween.

Yes, Halloween. It’ll soon be here, and if you enjoy celebrating the holiday it’s time to begin thinking about what kind of halloween costumes you and your friends or family might want to dress up in.

The last couple of years I haven’t done much for Halloween. Oh, we decorate our house. Some years we decorate more than others, but there’s always some decorations. We buy candy and treats to give out to the kids and occasionally we’ll dress up for Halloween.

I get a kick out of some of the kids Halloween costumes. They are so cute when they come to our door, often in groups of two to twelve! Yes, they do roam the streets in little packs, often with a parent or two in tow. Some kids are really shy and others quite bold. All seem to be quite pleased with themselves if you compliment them on their costumes.

I’ve noticed that some of the parents coming around with their children occasionally have infants with them. A few collect candy for their infants – which I don’t really understand since their babies are too young for most of the treats that are given out. Often when a parent has an infant with them on Halloween, usually while walking with an older child of course, their babies are dressed in infant Halloween costumes. I think those are the most adorable costumes of all. I’m certain that I’ve seen some babies dressed up as lady bugs and sunflowers. I love those costumes.

So what are you planning to dress up as this Halloween? Have you purchased costumes for your kids yet? Are you getting excited?

I love finding great coupon deals at the Deal Locker

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Have I told you about deallocker.com yet? I came across the Deal Locker website a couple of weeks ago and I’ve quickly become a fan of this wonderful site.

Why? What’s so special about it? Well, you can find 1000’s of discounts and coupons for products and stores throughout North America and several other countries throughout the world.

I love this site. Not only can you save money by either using coupon codes or printable coupons that you find on the site at online stores, grocery stores, retail and department stores, but you can also sign up for a free membership and add coupons or coupon codes that you’ve found in order to share them with others.

You won’t find coupon listings on this site that have already expired either. The Deal Locker prides itself on having current listings.

There’s also another feature that I find very helpful. When you use a coupon on the site you can come back and rate it. By this I mean you can state whether the coupon worked properly for you or not. As you probably know there’s nothing worse than finding a great deal on the net and then discovering that the promo code that you used didn’t work.

When you search through the site for coupons for a particular item, category or store you results will come up under “recommended coupons”. Those are coupons that have been rated by site members. You’ll also see that there’s a tab at the top of your coupon results that says “All Coupons” where you can find brand new coupons, ones that have yet to be rated and a few that haven’t always worked well for others, but that might work for you.

As I said there’s literally thousands of listings and the site is easy to use. If you’re thinking about purchasing a new computer simply click on the category tab, find the listing for Computer Coupons and search through the results to find a coupon or discount code that suits your needs.

You can also click on the store tab and find a specific store to see if they have any deals on items that you might want to buy. For example, if you know that you’ll be visiting Walmart on the weekend why not do a quick search for Walmart Coupons to see if there are any printable coupons that you can use while in the store?

Honestly, I’m going to try to use this site whenever I know I’m going out to shop at a department store. Of course I might find some online coupon deals that I could use instead. I really don’t mind whether I purchase something online or otherwise, but I do care about saving money and I’m certain that if I check this site regularly I’ll easily find savings.

Visit deallocker.com yourself and see what deals you can find.

Know of any good beauty, clothing or home decor affiliate programs?

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Ok I need your help.

I’ve gone and started a new blog. Well I bought the domain back in April and I’ve slowly been working on the site. I’m not yet ready to reveal the site yet, but I will tell you that it’s a shopping blog where I talk about great products for the home, beauty products, clothing, home decor items and well … you get the picture.

I’ve lined up some affiliate programs for the site. I mean if I’m talking about products I might as well throw in a few links here and there and maybe make some money right? So I’m looking for online clothing stores that have good products to talk about and affiliate or partner programs.

Actually it doesn’t have to just be clothing stores. It can be any kind of online affiliate program or store that has products for the home, bath and beauty, decor and so on.

I don’t plan on making a site full of affiliate links or anything. It has decent content, but as I said if I can hook up with some good programs that will benefit my readers and myself I might as well do it.

So if you know of any great partner programs please feel free to let me know about them. I’m all ears.

It’s time to start thinking about Halloween!

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You may think it’s a little early to start thinking about Halloween, but it’s already the end of August and I know people who start planning what they’ll do next Halloween almost from November 1st.

It’s a big deal.

I mean really. If you celebrate Halloween it’s one of the only times of year when you can truly be someone else. Dress yourself up, even take on a slightly different personality and get out there and have a good time.

In one of my career incarnations I was a makeup artist. I suppose I still am as I have the training behind me. As a result of my skills I was always quite popular come Halloween. Friends and family would come over to have me do their makeup and add some special effects to their costumes.

I guess you can tell that Halloween is still one of my favorite celebrations. I haven’t actually started to plan this years Halloween celebration, but I suppose it’s time to start thinking about it.

zombie.jpg The Costume Cauldron has a huge variety of Halloween costumes and items to decorate your home with, in fact it’s said that they have 14,000 Halloween related items.

They have everything from Sexy Halloween Costumes, to kids costumes, costumes for couples, movie or celebrity related costumes, funny costumes and so on. Just about anything you can think of really. They even have theatrical makeup and accessories to complete your look.

I think the year that I had the most fun helping people with their costumes was the year we all dressed up as the living dead or zombies. I had a lot of fun doing the makeup for that. The Costume Cauldron has a great zombie rot costume that would let anyone look like the living dead!

outhouse.jpgMy sister always had great costume ideas.

One year she had me help her dress up as a tampon. Unfortunately it was supposed to be a used one! Another year she went as a turd. Yes you heard me right.

Now I didn’t search all that hard for one of those types of costumes but I did find an outhouse costume! Isn’t that great?

If you enjoy Halloween as much as I do visit the Costume Cauldron and see if you can find something interesting to wear this year.

I’d love to hear what you might be dressing up as!

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